John Cena talks smack to Triple H at WrestleMania XXIV at the Citrus Bowl on Sunday, March 30, 2008 in Orlando, FL. (Jacob Langston/Orlando Sentinel)

The WWE issued an apology to the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation after a WWE superstar John Cena dissed Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson in a rap containing homophobic lyrics making fun of his movie career. The rant aired on WWE Raw carried on USA Network in late February.

GLAAD particularly took issue with one of the lines in John Cena’s rap which said, “Just don’t go racing to Witch Mountain, Rock, cause your mountain is Brokeback.”

The WWE issued an apology and announced yesterday that the two organizations will work together to create and promote an anti-bullying initiative aimed at their core audience and has invited GLAAD to conduct trainings for their staff of writers and editors.

President Barack Obama smiles with a shave Ice at Island Snow at Kailua Beach Center while on vacation with the first family in Kailua, Hawaii, Monday, Dec. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

President Barack Obama passionately believes in second chances. That’s apparently why, in part, he felt moved to call Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie and praise him for giving convicted felon Michael Vick another chance to compete in the NFL according to online reports.

According to the Associated Press, Obama spokesman Bill Burton says the president told owner Jeffrey Lurie that while he condemns the crimes Vick was convicted of, he believes people who have paid for their crimes should have the opportunity to contribute to society again.

This phone call, which was intended to discuss plans for use of alternative energy where the Eagles play, comes just a week after President Obama called UConn women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma for his team’s historic win-streak feat.

The topic of Michael Vick is pretty divisive, but President Obama has rarely been shy about giving his opinion in public or private on controversial topics.

Question is, do you really care about President Obama’s opinion on Michael Vick?

It is the first pay-per-view to hit the St. Pete Times Forum since the 2000 WWE Survivor Series. Tickets range from $20 to $275.

To some sports fans, WWE is a man soap opera, not a legitimate sport. But what is legitimate is the WWE’s huge audience.

WWE WrestleMania 2008 in Orlando is one of the largest grossing and most highly attended event in the history of the Florida Citrus Bowl along with the 1994 World Cup. Millions get funneled into the local economy from this event.

Granted, Extreme Rules isn’t WrestleMania. But if even just half the WrestleMania audience attends that’s good business.

With the Amway Center up and running, it would make an excellent choice for WWE events. Do you want to see “The Miz” back in Orlando sports fans?

This has to go down as one of the funniest — and maybe smartest — football plays of all time. Jason Garza, a quarterback for Driscoll Middle School in Corpus Cristi, TX, pulled off a designed trick play to tie 6-6 in the middle school championship.

I must have watched this Driscoll Middle School trick play video five times since last night when I first saw it during ESPN’s “C’mon Man” segment. For some reason, it gets funnier everytime I view it.

Garza’s coach John Delosantos created the play, which quite frankly, took advantage of the defensive players’ gullibility to believe what they heard from players on the other of the ball. Seems like there was some rule bending there, but hey, if it was a legal play, who am I to judge?

Some of us are still shaking our heads at the baseball folly that happened in Tampa Thursday afternoon.

The Tampa Bay Rays were knocked out of a first place tie with the New York Yankees in the American League East because of its old, dilapidated stadium, Tropicana Field. A popup that should have resulted in the third out for the Minnesota Twins ultimately helped give way to a game-winning single after the ball clanked off the stadium catwalk.

“If you want a really good reason why there is a new ballpark necessary in this area, there it is,” Rays manager Joe Maddon told local newspapers.

Remember when the 2010 Capital One Bowl aka “Soup Bowl” attracted more attention for terrible field conditions thanks to the standing water causing the field to disintegrate into mush? Players from Penn State and LSU complained to reporters after the game calling it one of the worst fields they’d ever competed on.

Florida Citrus Sports responded by selecting AstroTurf in July to install a new playing surface.

Weather and suspect officiating are an acceptable ill in factors that can sway a game’s outcome. But poor field and stadium conditions should never enter the equation.

So sports fans, which stadium committed the worse offense? Tropicana Field or the Citrus Bowl?